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Date:	Sat, 17 Dec 2011 11:57:45 -0500
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Subject:	Re: Sorry "people" (NOT MY taxonomy!!), but igncr IS flawed
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On 12/17/11, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 17/12/2011 15:50, manu0507 wrote:
>
>> - the script causing trouble comes in the GNU gdb distribution
>> gdb-7.3.1.tar.gz
>
>   Hah!  I know what's happened: you used a windows program such as winzip or
> similar to unpack the archive, and it's gone and "helpfully" munged all the
> line endings for you.  Use 'tar xvfz gdb-7.3.1.tar.gz' at the Cygwin shell
> command-line and you'll get a correctly unpacked version.  (There definitely
> aren't CRLFs in the upstream release of the configure scripts.)  Windows
> GUI-based archivers are well known for causing this problem.

7-Zip (from sourceforge) also works for unpacking tar.gz files for use
with Cygwin.

>   (Also, if you think that Eric's reply was "acrimonious", you're just having
> some sort of using-language-in-different-ways communication problem.  I saw
> it earlier and it seemed perfectly polite and proper to me, I honestly can't
> see what about it would offend you.)

+1

Lee

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